Alexei Navalny Freed From Jail Pending Appeal

7/19/2013 6:43AM

In a surprise move a day after he was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison, Russia's most prominent opposition activist, Alexei Navalny, was freed from jail pending appeal. Lukas Alpert reports from Moscow. Photo: AP

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I ... the the ... opposition to the laksa in the Valley was free from GIO pending appeal ... the surprise move that day off that he was convicted of and basil mint and sentenced to five years in prison ... Lukas Alpert is with me from almost a year because of what's happening ... well the judge decided today ... after receiving a request from the prosecutor actually two of the law Mr Obama and his co defendants the go free ... handing their appeal process of the prosecuted or had argued that the ... Russian law of allow them to ... the Koreans will be appeals process is done on this the sentences that haven't been ... all ... over ... um so yes he walked out of jail after last week's twenty four hours of being held ... it sounds ... sounds very strange to prosecute issue that we asked him to do it ... what is interesting because the officer was PG the general prosecutor's office is a different body Denver them ... the authority that actually brought the case is the ... investigative committee ... of historically these two bodies don't ... really get along with his turf wars is unclear that's what's happening here but Honda has been suggested ... governments around the world folks about this is the ... stylistically most of it's it's um is there for you said ... well I mean it certainly has come up after a long stream of ... prosecutions of people were tied to the opposition ... aam and this was the most high-profile one sees the best known but there's been several cases ... Amit Varma of the wall where was she right case last year which is kind of first ... up or action ... against these kind of activities owners ... of large case going on and I've got several dozen people were involved a lot of protests last year that one ... spends more violence ... um excuse to do that ... maybe there's a pattern in place ... of that and ... the Zionism ... is there any possibility that this is connected with the G twenty meeting in Moscow we can ... I mean that's an interesting question the timing of it was ... you know ... it's it's hard to say exactly ... what thinking is ... um you know that she things can get any serenely the protests ... that kicked off last night after the ... birth ... was announced ... its focus on the other area with it's right near where the G twenty meeting is occurrence of the event was in the mind of the opposition of ... this out but thank you very much ... Europe